> I have a Windows 95 machine and a Linux machine running Samba. The
> Windows machine is not seeing the host. I have set the Netbios name to
> the name of my Linux host. In etc/hosts I have:
> 10.0.0.3 jserver jserver.mydomain.dom
>
> I have jserver listed in lmhosts too and netbios is set to jserver.
> Is this correct?
>
> I've noticed that from a client on the local network I can use 'telnet
> 10.0.0.3' OK and 'telnet jserver.mydomain.dom' OK but doing 'telnet
> jserver' does not work.

This sounds like a DNS issue. Just thinking aloud off the top of my head,
I'd say that the Windows system doesn't know what it's domainname is (DNS
domain, not Windows domain), or it's not set to mydomain.dom like the Linux
system.

A proper DNS setup should first look for a system called "jserver", and then
look for a system called "jserver.current-DNS-domain". If the IP address is
working, and jserver.mydomain.com is working, but jserver alone doesn't, it
sounds like it isn't appending the proper DNS domainname to the hostname, or
it doesn't have any DNS domainname to append.

Another thing..

You're talking about lmhosts and hosts files. Did you know that both
Windows and Linux have these files? If you're relying on them on one side,
you might as well use them on both sides. Linux places them in /etc/,
Windows places them in C:\WINDOWS (Windows 95/98) or
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\ (Windows NT).

Don Head
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